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Healing-Centered Education Summit
Play, Slow Work & Our Collective Flourishing
Summit Co-Chair
Oct 7-10th 2022
Our vision for this gathering is to integrate insights from the slow work movement, the timely emergence of healing-centered education and the benefits of engaging in a sense of playfulness. Our mission for this summit is to hold space to nurture our collective flourishing by curating conversations and experiences that explore healing-centered theories, practices and modalities.
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PAST EVENTS
Healing-Centered Education Primer
Course Instructor
April 2022
The Acosta Institute's Healing-Centered Education Primer course invites participants into an exploration of how practitioners and scholars have integrated the notion of healing into K-12 curriculum and professional education.
Healing-Centered Education Curriculum Design Intensive
Course Faculty
March 2022
The Acosta Institute's Healing-Centered Education Curriculum Design Intensive invites teachers, consultants and educational practitioners to a full day of experimentation and play. This inaugural intensive focuses on how play and restorative practices can support those communities within which we work to thrive and transform ways to respond to unjust systems.
Healing-Centered Education Summit
Panelist
Pedagogies for Collective Recovery
Oct 2021
Featured on the Panel: 'Enabling Conditions for Thriving Through Archaeology of the Self' with Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Maria Tan, Dru McDaniel and Jen Gowers. You can listen to Maria's pre-summit interview below in the Summit Audio Garden.
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Thriving Teacher Summit
Head Chair
Centering Educators' Healing and Wellbeing
Sept 2021
Rooted in the restorative and healing-centered paradigm, the Thriving Teacher Summit supports educators in tending to their healing and restoration and fosters connection to a growing community of practitioners and scholars. Through a dynamic keynote address, an integrative closing panel, and concurrent workshops and restorative sessions, we create an experience that ignites and empowers educators on their journey towards thriving.
Thriving Teacher Project Masterclass Series
Curator & Facilitator
Oct 2020 - May 2021
The Thriving Teacher Project Masterclass Series is an 8-part web series curated to provide educators with the tools and space to process, heal, and thrive during challenging times. Each month features a masterclass by an expert in the fields of mindfulness, self-compassion, emotional intelligence, and trauma-responsive education (and more) to provide educators with tools to sustain their lives. A weekly follow-up support group will be facilitated by teachers for teachers to provide space for discussion, reflection, and community building.